ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYST 3 (FISCAL MANAGE:MENT)
Career Family: ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYST
Administrative Analyst 3 (fiscal Manage:ment) is a competitive state title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
It expects a bachelor's degree and 2 years of relevant experience. Pay on the FY 2027 schedule runs $66,592 to $97,354.
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See where to apply for this title →Pay ladder: Administrative Analyst series
- Administrative Analyst 1 — $63,663 – $92,953
- Administrative Analyst 2 — $69,668 – $101,951
- Administrative Analyst 3 — $87,507 – $128,719
- Administrative Analyst 4 — $100,498 – $148,187
Its top salary lands around the 40th percentile of all NJ civil service titles that publish a range.
Rungs are ordered by FY 2027 pay. NJ level numbers are not always sequential, so ordering follows salary rather than the title number.
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction of an Administrative Analyst 1, or other supervisor in a state department, plans and conducts management, statistical, organizational, fiscal, performance, and budget analyses of department and/or division programs; assists in conducting cost benefit analyses and effectiveness surveys; does related duties as required.
Examples of work
- Plans and conducts management, statistical, organizational, fiscal, performance, and budget analyses of department and/or division programs.
- Assists in conducting cost benefit analyses and effectiveness surveys; where alternative programs are needed, assists in making evaluations and recommendations as required.
- Performs evaluations of program activities to establish the validity of program objectives and the effectiveness of program operational policies and procedures in accomplishing these objectives.
- Evaluates fiscal management impacts involved with alternative policy actions.
- Conducts intensive investigations and prepares detailed recommendations relating to proposed expansion, continuation, or elimination of programmatic needs and functions and groups of positions.
- Prepares clear, sound, accurate, and informative statistical and other reports containing findings, analyses, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Analyzes operational problems brought to light through budget studies, requests and hearings; compiles and interprets data; appraises agency situations and develops courses of action for the more effective utilization of fiscal management resources.
- Prepares and presents to management both written and verbal justification of proposed solutions to administrative, budgetary, or fiscal problems indicating the costs, net benefits, risks, and alternatives.
- As directed, participates in administrative planning and in the development of procedural and instruction materials.
- Assists in establishing policies and procedures for regularly determining if and when the fiscal management systems and procedures or equipment should be updated. As required, participates in administrative planning, organization, administrative, and procedural studies, in capital planning and research, and assists in introducing new techniques and methods to improve administration.
- Maintains essential files.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information system used by the agency, office, or related units.
Education
Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's degree including or supplementd by twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or Finance.
Experience
Two (2) years of experience in work involving fiscal analyses and evaluation, budgeting, and management operations in government, business, and/or a management consulting firm.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of modern management science concepts and practices.
- Knowledge of modern government budgeting and planning practices and procedures, government program analysis, government organization principles, and administrative practices.
- Knowledge of data processing technology and its application to management decision making in the management of government agencies.
- Ability to analyze program operations, identify alternative program strategies, develop cost estimates, and evaluate alternatives and select the most practical and effective.
- Ability to plan and carry out analytic studies and investigations, or research assignments, and to produce reports containing clear, sound, and accurate analytic data findings and recommendations, including suggested implementation techniques.
- Ability to work effectively, under direction, with a minimum of supervision, in dealing with other personnel at various levels of management and to obtain their cooperation in securing necessary information and implementing recommendations resulting from analytic studies and evaluations.
- Ability to analyze, interpret, and apply laws, regulations, and agency program plans.
- Ability to identify and define latent program and policy issues and to recommend appropriate action to be taken.
- Ability to maintain essential records.
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
- CODES: 21/P21- (35 Hrs) CAH 8/19/95 21/P22- (40 Hrs)
Note
Applicants who do not possess the Bachelor's degree, but who do possess the twenty-one (21) semester hour crdits as listed above, may substitute the remaining education with experience as indicated above on a year-for-year basis. (Thirty (30) credits equates to one (1) year of experience).
A Master's degree in one of the areas listed above may be substituted for one (1) year of experience; a Doctorate degree in one of the areas listed above may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.